Sarah Reich Bio

Sarah Reich is exploding onto the scene as a young professional, having spent the past five years assisting tap legend Harold Cromer at numerous festivals, including Tap City, St. Louis Tap Festival, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Los Angeles Tap Festival, and Tap Into A Cure. Sarah is now becoming a tap festival teacher on her own; her first teaching job was in Limoges, France. She has studied with, among others, Alfred Desio, Cyd Glover and Paul & Arlene Kennedy, has been a member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble’s Caravan Project, is a current member of Jason Samuel Smith’s “Anybody Can Get It” company, Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies, and serves as the Dance Captain for the LA Ironworks Youth Company as well as contributing choreography for the group.

Sarah has performed at many venues around Los Angeles including the Getty Museum, the Ford Amphitheatre, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Kodak Theatre, the Madrid Theatre, the King King Club, the Hollywood Bowl, and was asked to dance for promotional events for the movie Happy Feet. She is featured on two instructional tap DVD’s with Mike Wittmers.

Sarah was featured in an article titled “20 Hot Tappers Under 20” in Dance Spirit Magazine, and selected as one of the top 25 dancers to look out for in 2009 in Dance Magazine. Sarah received an award for Performing Artist of The Year at the 2005 OMNI Awards. She has also been featured in numerous television shows including So You Think You Can Dance, the Jerry Lewis Telethon, Secret Talents of the Stars, and Sabado Gigante.

Sarah is currently teaching around Los Angeles at Everybody Dance, the Colburn School, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, the Tap Academy and the EDGE Performing Arts Center.

"Watching tapper Sarah Reich dance is a lesson in exuberance… she has an uncanny ability to balance the hard- hitting syncopation of today’s rhythm tappers with a touch of a confidence of the tap legends…”
-Dance Magazine

"Sarah Reich has a deep passion for tap and tap had a great future in store for her."
-Dancer Magazine

"Sarah Reich is one of the most talented and busiest tap dancers in LA."
-On Tap Magazine